Day Bump
Day Bump - meaning Summary
Everyday Moments, Diffuse Memory
Ashbery's 'Day Bump' presents a speaker drifting through a shoreline scene and sparse social memory. Everyday details — a mud-choked harbor, a dog-perch, grocery clips — surface alongside dislocated remarks and a tentative claim of resolution. The poem registers uncertainty about belonging and recollection: ordinary events become oddly charged, and the voice slips between casual observation and uneasy reassurance, producing a sense of distance where meaning feels provisional.
Read Complete AnalysesWhether the harborline or the east shoreline consummated it was nobody's biz until you got there, eyelids ashimmer, content with one more dispensation from blue above. And just like we were saying, the people began to show some interest in the mud-choked harbor. It could be summer again for all anyone in our class knew. Yeah, that's right. Bumped from our dog-perch, we'd had to roil with the last of them. It's taken a while since I've been here, but I'm resolved. What, didn't I print, little piles of notes, slopes almost Sicilian? Here is my friend: Socks for comfort (now boys) will see later. Did they come? The inner grocery had to take three sets of clips away. Speaking to him of intricate family affairs. I'm not what you think. Stay preconscious. It's just the "flooding of the council." No need to feel afraid.
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